Volume 32, Number 22, June 3, 2005

Senate Defeat of Coup d'État
Leaves Bush a Lame Duck

The bipartisan agreement of 14 Senators to avert the Bush-Cheney "nuclear option," which would have turned the U.S. Senate into an impotent Parliament, has transformed the political geometry in Washington. George W. Bush is now relegated to a "rubber room" in the White House, to ride his tricycle to his heart's content.

Republic Saved! Congress
Must Rebuild the Country!

Lyndon LaRouche's Political Action Committee circulated this statement after the Senate victory.

Lautenberg Warned of Coup d'État

Biden: An Arrogant Grab for Power

Bipartisan Senators:
We Have Kept the Republic

Reid: `Abuse of Power
Will Not Be Tolerated'

Frist: Up or Down, Up or Down, Up or Down

Economics

Rumsfeld's Base-Closing Plan
Is a Huge Real Estate Swindle

Moving U.S. military bases to far-out suburbs is aimed at building up a new real estate bubble in areas which do not have the infrastructure to absorb these bases, and the families and service requirements that go along with them. The resulting process will increase costs, not decrease them.

House, Senate Bills To Delay Closings

Vets Face Deepening Austerity at the VA

Cuts, Real Estate Deals
Target VA Hospitals

Italian Parliamentarians Fight Against
Usury, for Return to a Real Economy

Interviews with Rep. Alessandro Delmastro delle Vedove and Sen. Oskar Peterlini.

Science & Technology

On the Noëtic Principle:
Vernadsky and Dirichlet's Principle

Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. examines afresh the seminal 1935 work On Some Fundamental Problems of Biogeochemistry, by the Russian-Ukrainian geobiochemist Vladmir I. Vernadsky. "The characteristics of the Biosphere, as Vernadsky and his Laboratory defined it," LaRouche writes, "and Noösphere, as I define physical economies as wholes, are analogous. Everything to which I have referred, on this account, in excerpting Vernadsky's 1935 paper, has a parallel in my methods of a science of physical economy."

International

Early Elections in Germany
Open New Options for Change

Chancellor Schröder's Achilles' heel is the economy, and the anti-industrial policy of his Social Democratic Party in alliance with the Greens, cost the SPD the important state election in North Rhine-Westphalia. Will he learn the lesson, dump the Greenies, and adopt LaRouche's economic policy measures? Documentation: A leaflet by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, chairwoman of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo).

New Provocations by Sharon in the Works

France: Why Is the Vote So Important
on the European Constitution?

Looted by the Bankrupt IMF System,
the Philippines Opens to LaRouche

Michael Billington reports from a visit to Manila.

National

The Franklin/AIPAC Case:
Cheneygate Revisited

The new indictment of Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst charged with illegal possession of classified U.S. government documents, promises to reopen the combination of scandals that all lead to the doorstep of Dick Cheney.

AFL-CIO Leader:
We're Ready To Do the Work

An interview with Bill Londrigan.

Wilbur Ross Cartel Dumps
Mineworkers' Health Care

Wisconsin Lawmaker:
Use GM, Ford To Rebuild U.S.

Congressional Closeup

Interviews

Alessandro Delmastro delle Vedove

Hon. Delmastro delle Vedove is a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from the National Alliance‹sc, a conservative party that is part of Silvio Berlusconi's government coalition. He is a member of the Culture Commission and Transport Commission‹ec.

Oskar Peterlini

Hon. Peterlini is an Italian Senator from the South Tyrolean People's Party.

Bill Londrigan

Bill Londrigan has been the president of the Kentucky AFL-CIO since 1999, representing 100,000 union members, including mineworkers, fire fighters, office workers, and many others.

Editorial

Get Congress to Rebuild the Country!